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Mathematics

Understand the Mathematics Lessons

All of the lessons presented are designed to highlight the math Shifts. These lessons focus on bringing the Shifts required by the standards into everyday instruction. The resources below explain how to identify and create lessons aligned to the Shifts. Learn more about the math Shifts.

How these Lessons Address the Shifts

These lessons illustrate the Shifts and can be used immediately in classrooms for teachers to get a sense of the expectations of the standards. They can also be used in PLCs as part of a lesson study or shared observations.

Focus: All of these lessons align to the major work of the grade.

Coherence: These lessons demonstrate how to build student understanding from previous learning and prepare students for future learning.

Rigor: These lessons were selected to represent a balance of the aspects of Rigor required by the standards.

College- and Career-Ready Math Shifts at a Glance

A document explaining the biggest changes in mathematics for the CCSS and other college- and career-ready standards.

Many of the lessons reference a specific progression document, narrative documents describing the progression of a topic across a number of grade levels, informed both by research on children's cognitive development and by the logical structure of mathematics. The progressions can explain why standards are sequenced the way they are, point out cognitive difficulties and pedagogical solutions, and give more detail on particularly knotty areas of the mathematics.

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